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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rev.) Jay Bartow Monterey, Calif...
Startled by the explosion of black violence, Miami's civic leaders invited nationally known blacks to come try to cool the anger. Among them: former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks, Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph Lowery and the Rev. Jesse Jackson of Chicago. But when Young tried to speak to a post-riot rally of some 800 blacks, he was shouted down and had to leave with a protective escort. "What the hell are you doing here?" one angry black screamed at Young as he arrived for the meeting in Liberty City. "The only...
...demand more employment for disadvantaged youth, the Rev. Jesse Jackson last Saturday rallied 5,000 people-a fifth of the number expected-on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol. "We want jobs," they chanted. One placard read: HELP FOR CHRYSLER WHAT ABOUT US? The demonstration was preceded by a week of hard lobbying by Jackson, during which he met with President Carter to make a direct plea for more youth job funding. "We have a real depression in the black community," said Jackson...
Verily the Rev. Robert H. Schuller has journeyed far from the California drive-in theater where he founded the Garden Grove Community Church in 1955. Four years did he sojourn there, and the cars in his flock did wax and grow, and so he later moved to a larger church with a bigger parking lot costing $3 million. But still did his ministry prosper, faster yet in 1970 when the pastor began his nationwide Hour of Power on TV. "We were turning people away," he cried. So Architect Philip Johnson has built him a Crystal Cathedral of gleaming glass...
...Rev.) Larry N. Lorenzoni San Francisco